IIINIIAMITK JOINS IN. Hamilton, This Day. The Minhiiniite Shire Council yes .terday rleciclcd to discontinue paying the bonus on foxes. It appears that last year the council paid away £90, and realised on i'3 for the sale of skins. The Portland Shire would do away with the fox skin bonus,- but fears that it is compulsory.

WORKING MAN ARTIST "The Universe" tells the interesting life-story of the "working man artist of Walworth," whoso powers have been attracting attention. Having first seen the light at Man chester in 1867, Matthew Mooney was taken at the age of three to Glasgoiv, ' where he received his schooling at the Franciscan School, South Side. He com menced work as steward on a pleasure steamer plying round the Scottish coast; went later to Manchester and worked In a wine bar; five years later he became valet to Cardinal Vaughan, with whom he travelled; acted as stew ard on a Royal Mall Steam Packet boat; took up a job as a stage hand at (Drury Lane Theatre; and then turned engineer. He is now assistant electrician at the Strand Palace Hotel. Mr Mooney's home is in a "depress ing street" in Walworth. He was 32 before he "touched a paint-box." See ing the scene-painters busy at Drury . Lane Theatre, he became suddenly in terested in their work. At every oppor tunity he watched them spread their...

THE FOX BONUS. COUNCILS HUSHING TO DROP IT. The Colac Shire Council, by a majority of seven to live, has abo lished the system of paying a bonus on fox scalps. This was done be cause the bonus was not paid by any j of the adjoining shires, i

PITTO* PO!QO?> ED WHS6T For Daotroplnc? Rata. Mica. Sparrows and Parrots, etc. It Is tbo only eortaln end trenulno preparation Qafcse all Iml tatlnno Is 63. (torso I/-t fallow Daoliota: 0/3 A leadminer was sued by tho Great Western Railway at Wrexham County Court for sixpence. He travelled by one of their motor trains from Wrexham to Plaspowe station without having booked, and refused to pay his fare or that of a dog which he had with him. Judgment was entered for the plain tiffs. The costs amounted to 19/6. con ouULiDRHH THEZTEHHG, fcero la nothing eaual to EBRNOTD BOOTH ING POWDBR3. They are a cafo and | eortaln remedy: X/- p&amp;tn.: posted l/l etampa TCERNOT. Chorals! QBEtiONO £T S Elgb-C!ass Swedish Separators available at Prices HITHERTO UNKNOWN. Our Introduction of the NEW MODEL "VEGA" has dealt a death-blow to ExorDltani Prices charged by our competitors MAKE1 NO MISTAKE! The .New Model "Veea" lo no rough, cheaply-con otructed Separator It has NO SUPERIOR In quality, ...

IIOW TIIE PUBLIC PAYS At Delhi the Government can give notice to a landowner that they are about to use his land. They are then empowered to buy that land if they need it at its value at the time of the notice. In this way the poople of Delhi escape the sort of thing that happens to London when Its suburbs are developed. Take one of the latost successes in London travel. The Golder's Green Tube has multiplied by eight the value of land round Gol der's Green (says "The Nation.") And if any public authority has any town planning or development scheme in view, it has to pay some such huge and unjust tax.

BOOM IN ZOOS animals like their caGKS. ■ "No 1 ires and 110 mammals, from whatsoever part of the wor (1 or r'i mate they may have come, ever ap proach the duration of life which they may be expected to attain, if they are kept in the interior of a warmed house," said Dr Chalmers Mitchell, secretary to the Zoological Society of London, referring to the new open-air installations at the Zoo in a paper read before the Royal Society of Arts last night (says the "Daily Express" of November 27). The customary heating arrange ments are expensive but certain modes of killing them. Fresh air is the fun damental necessity. "There is what may be called a boom in zoological gardens." he said. "1 am sometimes charged with being too sedulous o£ the popular side of mena geries and careless of their scientific side. In this matter there is a real coincidence between what the public want and what is best for the advance ment of scientific knowledge. "There are very few living animals that are known ...

PERSONAL ITEMS. Mr. R. 8. (iregson, who was at. one time manager "f the National Bank at G'oleraine, and thence took up the secretary.ship of the Wank in London, and subsequently became inspector, has been appointed manager of the head olliee in Sydney. .Recently Mr. Gregson has been acting- as manager of the hank in Adelaide. This popular official has been in the ser vice of the bank for 37 years ; he leaves Melbourne to-morrow to take up his Sydney duties. Mr. and Mrs. Carstairs, of Eden hope, on their leaving Edenhope, were tendered a farewell social.

NAREEN MECHANICS' INSTITUTE | o I From Our Correspondent. Narecn. Tuestliiy. The annual meeting of members of the Nareen Mechanics' Institute was held on Saturday, and was well at tended, Mr. ,1. R. M'Donald pre siding. The report- and balance sheet for year ending were read and confirmed. The receipts with balance brought forward from previous year were £75 1/2, and the expenditure £1-1- 18/5, leaving a credit balance on hand of £60 2/9. | Those elecled as office-bearers for (.lie ensuing year are :—President, I Mr. J. R. M'Donald ; vice-presidents, , Messrs, T. .1. Carey and ,1. M'Veaij,; | auditor, Mr. A. Clark, jun.; cum miitee, Messrs. (!«&amp;lt;>. Riddoelt, W. J. j Waters, D. M'D.uiaid, J.. Wafers, ! jun., R. Ncave, and .las. Riddoch ; i secretary, Mr. .T. T. Waters. Tlie making of additions to the hall was then discussed by members, and it was agreed to put two small rooms | on to the back of the present build ing.

!How 7'o Cure Indigestion. The following letters will tie of in •.ense interest to sufferers from Indi gestion:— From Mrs. D. H. Cole, 70 Keightley road, Subiaco, W.A. "For mauy years I suffered from frequent attacks of indigestion, follow •d by pains in the chest, severe head iches, sleeplessness, biliousness, con stipation aiifl pains under the shoulder jlades. I could retain little on my sto naeli, and vomited frequently. I tried i variety of medicines with very little ?ood result. I happened to read one if Warner's Safe Cure pamphlets, and ;eeing in it how others had taken "War ner's Safe Cure with beneficial re sults, I decided to try that medicine, f obtained great relief from the first bottle; In fact, from the first few doses [ took. After taking Warner's Safe ^ure for a few weeks I was quite re stored to health. All my former trou ble has gone from me, I hope, and be 'ieve, never to return. Now I am feel 'ng fit and strong as I could wish to be." From Mr. T. Darcy, 163 St. ...

A COLERAINEAN'S CASE. Hamilton, This Day An application was made in the Practice Con ft yesterday before the Chief Justice 011 behalf of the Closer Settlement Board for final judgment against Franklin Burchett, of Cole raine, for £510 1^/-, in respect of a closer settlement block at Mooralla, 1 Cavendish. Mr. Mann appeared for the Hoard, and Mr. Macfarlane (on behalf of Messrs. Palmer and Son) for the de fendant. The defence was that there was false representation in describing the land, in that it would not produce I the quantities alleged, and that it was flukey, by which he had lost 100 sheep, and that to have remained in 1 possession would have ruined him. The Chief Justice said the defend ant asked to have the lease set aside, but the defendant should show that the board knew, or should have known, of the alleged drawbacks of the land. The summons for final judgment would be dismissed, and the hearing of tlie action set downjor trial before a judge and juiy.

KEADLY FLANNELETTE Inflammable clothing as a cause of deaths by fire is exposed In a striking manner by statistics compiled by "Fire." The writer says:— "When the fireguards clause was in corporated ill the Children Act it was piously hoped that the number of chil dren annually burned to death would be reduced by half. So far as our records go. the number of infantile mortalities has increased, for the Act is practic ally a dead letter; few penalties are im posed in the comparatively few in stances where proceedings have been taken. The Government did not strike at the principal cause of infantile burn ing fatalities—inflammable clothing." "Very few men are burnt- to death owing to their clothing Igniting," adds the writer, "but it is different with women, quite $5 per cent, of the fatal ities to women reported being due to the inflammability of their wearing apparel." The total of Are fatalities this year to November 19, as compiled by the writer, is 61 men, 20! women, and-592 chil...

SETTLERS IN TROUBLE Til JO BAILIFFS' POSSESSION. Melbourne, This Day. I Answering Mr. Jl'Leod in tlie Legislative Assembly yesterday, Mr. Lawson, tlie Commissioner of Crown Lands, stated that where the bailiffs had been put 111 on Mooralla and Kenil worth, the amounts owing t-> tho Ijaiuls Purchase Board were much beyond the stipulated limit. In some cases the lessees had not paid anything since making their deposit, and such conditions could not con tinue. No such distress warrants ■would be adopted in tlie future until the fullest enquiries had been made into the circumstances. The distress orders alluded to had been with drawn.

METHODIST RE-OPENING CELEBRATIONS. Ln continuance of the celebrations connected with the re-opening of the Methodist Church, Coleraine, a ser vice of song, entitled " Nobody's Darling," was given by the choir, •assisted by some voices from St. Andrew's, on evening.' • JEh'o. building was well filled, and the piece was given to the satisfaction of all. The story was of a sad char acter, but pathetic, and kept the close attention of the audience. Mi Hill gave the readings, and these were interspersed mainly with choruses, but solos were also allowed : a. proportionate space, these being j j taken by Miss Foster, Miss Hill, Miss Davenport, Mrs. Cook son, Mr. Flet cher, Mr. EL lligby, and Mr. Punslion. At the close of the service of-song j the trustees of the Church were 'pre ! sented by an anonymous donor with i j a copy of a Bible for use in the pulpit. Another presentation was to a I lady who had given much service to i the Church for a number of years— i Miss Templeton. Mr. Hill sai...

THE OVAL OPENIKG QUESflOfi To the I'M it or Sir.—You report. Mr. S. Davies as having waiiI, " First-of all, t-lie Oriel" fellows ami Hibernians applied i.o the Government for u recreation ground, and it resulted in their getting the whole of Queen's Park." I have no r doubt that you reported Mr. Davies correctly, and that being so, allow ine to inform Mr. Davies (and I think it is within the knowledge of many) that the Oddfellows and Hibernians had nothing whatever to do with getting the land reserved -which was aftei - wards named Queen's Park. As a matter of fact, I don't think the Odd fellows or the Hibernians were in existanee at the time the grant was first made. Originally the grant was for public gardens, and after many years the further area was granted in order that people who held no land should in the future have a grazing place for their milclr cows, but for many years that privilege was denied them until, as Mr. J. Fitzgerald in terjected, after the fire. " Lost we forg...

"UNWISE, BUT NO ROGUE" An American, Ralph Emerson Burn ham, was indicted at Sussex Assizes for unlawfully obtaining credit. Burnham at one time had an income of £2000 or £3000. Although warned that his bank ing: account was overdrawn he drew cheques, the subject of tha charge. Counsel said that Burnham had expec tations of being able to meet the cheques as two people owed him £8000. A detective said Burnham was not a man of criminal tendencies. He had lent considerable sums which had nat been repaid. Mr Justice Bucknill said Burnham had been unwise, but was not a rogue. He was bound over to come up for judgment If called upon.

WEATHER PROPHETS i THIS POINT OF .VIKW- , (By Barry Pain, in the "Daily Mail/')' In the little smoking-room «.k. luu back of tho bar the conversation was mainly between Mr Hagley, a stolid looking man in gaiters, who had made an unproved assertion and stuck to it, and Mr Peterson, a fluent llttlo man with spectacles, London-born, who ob jected to unproved assertions. There were others present. There was tho landlord, a wise man. who said little. And in tho leather-covered armchair by tho fire was the obese figure of Mr Jackson. Mr Jackson had sold a horse extremely well that day—almost too well in tho opinion of purists—and was now very tired. Even in sleep Ills podgy fingers never relaxed their grip of his half-smoked cigar, and occasionaTIy he woke up for a moment and contributed something to tho conversation which had no direct bearing upon it. "We'll all friends here," said Mr Peterson glibly, "and I am sure I have no wish to lose my temper or to make . use of any expression whi...